Device for cleaning burner-tips.



Patented July 25, 1916.

Jul. lvokms PETERS m. Prmm urrm wasumarwv. vv c VERNER B. ALLEN, 0F CLINTON, INDIANA.

DEVICE FOR CLEANING BURNER-TIPS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1916.

Application filed November 22, 1915. Serial No. 62,833.

enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention is directed to improvements in cleaners for tips of acetylene gas burners, and has for its object to so construct a device of this character that the passage through the tip can be cleaned of solid material which may collect therein wigzhout removing the tip from the burner tu e.

A further obiect of the invention is to combine with the burner tube a cleaning device which is located interiorly of the tube and can be operated exteriorly thereof, the same being particularly adapted for use in connection with the acetylene lamps used by miners.

With these and other objects in view, this invention resides in the novel features of construction, formation, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which: Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional viewof the burner tube showing it equipped with the cleaning device. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing 1 indicates a portion of a conventional form of lamp, and 2 the burner tube which is attached thereto in the usual manner, said tube having its outer end provided with the usual tip 3.

The cleaner consists of a rod 4 having fixed adjacent each end thereof disks 5 and 6, the disk 6 being provided with a semicircular recess 7, and also perforations 8.

The disk 5 is provided with perforations 9. Thus it will be seen that the perforations 3 and 9 and the recess 7 will permit the gas to flow past the disks to the passage 10 of the burner tip. The rod 4: is provided centrally with teeth 11 which are engaged by the gear 12, said gear being fixed to the inner'end of the stem 18, said stem being threaded through one side of the burner tube 2 and has its outer end extended beyond the reflector 13. The outer end of the rod 4: is provided with a needle 14 which is adapted to engage in the passage 10 of the tip when the rod 4 is moved forwardly, said needle serving to effectually clean the passage of any foreign matter. It will be noted that the disks serve to support the rod 4 centrally within the tube 2, and that the peripheries thereof will slidably engage the interior of the tube so that the rod can be moved backwardly and forwardly. By pro-' viding the recess 7 it is obvious that the rod 4 can be removed or replaced, since the recess will permit the passage of the gear. Formed in the tube 2 is a rib 15, which engages a notch 16 in the disk 5, thereby pre venting the rod from rotating and moving longitudinally of the casing. Upon grasping the innerend of the rod 1, it is obvious that the same can be slid from the tube when desired.

WVhat is claimed is In a burner cleaner, the combination with a burner tube, of a rod mounted therein, disks carried by the rod and having their peripheries slidably engaged with the interior of the tube, said disks having perforations formed therein to permit passage of gas, and means operable exteriorly of the tube to reciprocate the rod.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

VERNER B. ALLEN. l/Vitnessesz J. W. HARRISON, J on DUDLEY.

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